In a brief but emotional hearing at the Statehouse Wednesday, advocates for prison reform in Alabama applauded a legislative ...

A new prison oversight pilot program is launching at possibly four state prisons replacing legislation that sparked emotional ...

The Alabama Solution,” a smuggled cellphone chronicle of inmate deaths, sexual abuse and deplorable conditions inside what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A guard tower at Holman Correctional Facility in 2019. Alabama lawmakers are not yet ready to commit to closing older prisons, a ...

An Alabama pastor is working to extend the Oscar buzz and attention from a documentary into meaningful reform behind prison walls across the state. Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, an activist based in ...

Prominent Prison Reform Advocate and Author Demands Comprehensive Accountability and Transparency NEW YORK CITY, NY, ...

“The Alabama Solution” reveals stark, rarely seen realities inside Alabama prisons and questions whether the system should continue unchanged.

The Justice Department threatened to sue the Alabama state prison system Wednesday over shocking and brutal conditions uncovered during a 2 1/2-year investigation into the state’s massively ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections says a woman was arrested in Madison on Wednesday as part of an investigation into synthetic cannabinoids in state prisons.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — With Alabama trailing the nation in COVID-19 vaccinations, infections rising, and the governor refusing incentives to encourage more people to get shots, state prisons are offering ...